Summer in Poland - by Milena Ziółek

My summer holidays in Poland

Finally school was over on the 19thof June. I wanted to have a great time during my summer holidays. In the beginning of July my older brother and I went to Warsaw. We visited my aunt and uncle. Everyday we went to the swimming pool “Warszawianka.” I really liked it because I love swimming. We also went kayaking with my uncle. I nearly drowned because our kayak had a hole. My uncle saved me from drowning. We did shopping in big shopping malls and my aunt bought me really nice T-shirts. My uncle and aunt have a little dog and we went for long walks and played together.
Next I went to the countryside. I visited my grandma who lives in a small village near Lublin. Everyday I milked cows and goats. I fed chickens, pigs, turkeys, cows, horses and pigeons. I drove my grandpa’s tractor. I also picked fruit, for example, strawberries, raspberries, black currents and red currents. I made dinner with my grandma. One of the roosters bit me because it was stupid and did not like children.
On the 27th of July my friends and I went to a scouts camp in Zloty Stok. We took a night train and had a nice journey. When we came to our camp the place was full of mud. We had to wear rubber boots. Next we built our tents and finally we could go to bed. My team was responsible for many tasks, for example, cooking, cleaning, sweeping, changing guard, etc.
One day the leader of my team sent us to the forest for 24 hours. She gave us a loaf of bread and a bottle of water and a blanket. My friend and I were in one team and we had to help each other. We had to survive without the mobile phone and the watch. But we hid the phone and the watch and we met with the rest of the girls and boys at the planned hour. We slept in one place together. Then we went to a small shop together and we played in the playground. After 24 hours we came back to the camp. I spent a great time there.
In sum, I had really wonderful holidays. I hope that next summer holidays will be much better. I think that I will get an American visa and visit my American friends Pam and Tim who live in Washington D. C .

Summer in Holland - photos by Robbert

Summer in Holland - a poem by Jill

Summerlove

Such a beautiful thing to see
The birds sitting in a tree.

Flowers blooming like never before
Still waiting for more.

The sun is shining everywhere
People singin’, dancin’ like they just don’t care.

Trying to get a tan
As much and wherever we can.

Everyone can feel the love passing every border
Ignoring every command or order.

Love is in the air
Because summer’s everywhere.


Made by Jill Lauwigi, V4t Het College Vos.

Regional dishes - Polish students (Amanda, Kasia and Magda from class IIi) prepared a Spanish dish

Spanish Cake

Ingredients:

dough :
30 decagrams of round biscuits
1,5˝ cups of milk
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A cup of fried orange skin
A cup of chopped raisins and nuts
20 decagrams of butter
2 spoonfulls of flour
1 cup of milk
4 egg yolks a pinch of vanilla
½ litre of fine cream icing sugar
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Preparation:

Fry the flour with half of the butter. Mix it with cold milk and add the sugar. Them cool it for a while & mix it with the rest of the butter, the yolks & vanilla. Pour somehot water onthe raisins and chop them in to fine pieces. Dip the biscuits in milk and orrange them neatly on the plate. Whem the whale plate is covered with the biscuits put some of the earlier prepared mass on them. After that, put a new layer of biscuits dipped in milk, cover it with some of the mass and keep on repeating the procedure unitil you run out of ingreadients. Finaly, put some whipped cream mixed with the icing sugar & vanilla on the top & leare it in the fridge for 2-3 hours.
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Account:

First we bouht everything we needed. Later we followed the recipe and everything was going fine, but when we had to mix the flour the kichen looked like a snow storm and we looked like snowmen ! Great fun !! However , we decided to continue. When the cake was finished we wanted to put it in the fridge, but there was no room in my fridge left. We decided to leave the cake on the balcony. After 2 hours the cake was ready. We affered some of it to everybody who was in and ate it to the last piece. Everybody said that it was excellent. (:

Amanda, Kasia and Magda from class IIi

Regional dishes - Polish students (Adrian, Mateusz, Michał, Janek from class IIb) prepared a Finnish dish

"Rosolli"
A dish from Finland

2 carrots and 5 small beets boil in skins. After peeling cut in cubs. Add cut onion. Everything put into bowl, mix and add a bit salt and pepper. Next you have to do special sos which is served in the small bowl. 200-300 ml cream 18 %, a bit sugar and whipp it, add 1 little spoon of borsch to get pink colour and it's done!

We were doing salad about 30 minutes. It wasn't hard to do it. After great done job we ate it. Adrian's sister ate a lot of it. Mainly it tasted good.

Adrian, Mateusz, Michał, Janek from class IIb

German students in the Netherlands

Our exchange to the Netherlands took place from 5.10. to 9.10.2009.

Angelo Cunsolo, Nadine Ritter, Sophie Werner und Jacek Hesse were the exchange pupils from Germany. Misses Schlegel and Mister Heindorf accompanied us.

Cem, Ruby, Chiara and Jill were the host pupils from the Netherlands. Moreover in the Neterlands there were pupils from Russia, Finnland, Poland and Spain. We had four very nice days there. We took part in different trips with much interest.

On Monday, we arrived at 6 pm, we were picked up by our hostfamilies and went to their houses which are very nice. In the evening we all met and talked to get to know us.

On Tuesday all the exchange pupils went to Rotterdam by bus.Ater that we went to Dordrecht by a waterbus. Dordrecht is one of the oldest towns in the Netherlands.

On Wednesday we visited the "Claudius Ciuilislaan School" in Vlaardingen and introduced our project „ Typical flowers from Germany.

After that we ate at the school canteen and we went by bike into the centre of Vlaardingen and visited many shops. Then we went swimming together.

In the evening we went to a Chinese restaurant called "Wokhouse" to eat dinner there. It tasted very well and we had a lot of fun.

On Thursday we visited Amsterdam which is a beautiful city with many shops, bridges and sights. Amsterdam has about 6,000 monuments and many houses which have their own stories.In the evening we celebrated our last day and had a lot of fun there.

Friday morning we had to be at the train station at 7.45 am and we had to say „Good Bye“. Then we went by train at 7.55 am. It was a nice and very interesting time in the Netherlands.

Angelo Cunsolo, Wernigerode

Dutch - German meeting in Wernigerode/Germany

While some students of our school went to Vlaardingen/ Netherlands, we had Dutch guests in our school. four Dutch girls learning German at home visited Wernigerode from 5th to 9th October 2009.

On Monday the 5^th of October the pupils from Netherlands arrived in Wernigerode by train. We (Kassandra, Vivien, Sophie and me, Veronika) gave a warm welcome to the four girls at the train station and went home, each of us with our guest.

Tuesday we met in Derenburg at the glass manufactory. At first we visited and watched the glassmakers and after that we made a glass ball our own. In the afternoon the German and the Dutch girls met in the town, made sightseeing and went shopping.

On Wednesday the girls from Netherlands went to the Brocken with their teacher. They went there by train, probably because of the weather. Unfortunately the German girls had to go to school. In the afternoon the German and Dutch girls met at the train station again and visited the Wernigerode castle.

Thursday all pupils had to go to school. After school the girls enjoyed a sporty afternoon in the bowling centre. In the evening there was a great farewell dinner at the Quelle restaurant. It was a funny evening with friends!!!

On Friday the German and Dutch girls met at the train station at 9a.m. to say Goodbye. L

See you again in March 2010!!!

Veronika, class 8a

Germany: Chriss Cross - Here I feel well

Hi !

My name is Vivien I´m 13 years old, and I come from Germany.

What is my favourite place and why especially is this place my favourite one? My favourite place is in Egypt, because it is a beautiful place and my uncle lives there.

What is my biggest wish? My biggest wish is to go swimming with a dolphin because dolphins are very cool.

What worries I have? I don`t have any worries .

What is happiness for me? How would you describe happiness? Happiness is for me when I´m see my whole family. I would describe it as happy if I get something what I really wanted. What do I want to do in ten years? I don´t know what I want do in ten years.

Germany: Chriss Cross - Here I feel well

Hi, my name is Veronika I’m 13 years old and I live in Wernigerode.

My favourite place is on Mallorca. Mallorca has some wide and litttle beaches. I can swim in the warm water, I can read a book there or I can relax.I wish me a laptop with internet, because I can chat with friends.

At the moment I haven’t any worries! J

Happiness is for me to laugh with friends. I think when you have found money or you had a serious accident and you are still okay, or you’re glad about something. J

Finland: Criss Cross - Here I Feel Well: Articles written by the Finnish students travelling to Vlaardingen project meeting in October 2009

Here I feel well

Hello, my name is Marika and I’m from Helsinki, Finland. I’m 15 years old.
I want to be home, where I can hide and be alone. It is nice to hide in my own room if I'm tired and tired of the others.
My wish is, in particular, the fact that I will succeed well in school.
I have no worries at all!
Hmm.. for me it is important to be with my friends and sometimes they are so silly that I can not really do anything but laugh! And happiness means to me really much.
Maybe ten years later, I will have a good job and maybe a family. I would like a large family. I would probably be a lawyer 10 years later.

Finland: Criss Cross - Here I Feel Well: Articles written by the Finnish students travelling to Vlaardingen project meeting in October 2009

Hi!
I'm 14 years old boy from Helsinki, Finland and my name is Jin-Long. I live in the 5 floor block near Vantaa and our apartment is a 89 square metres, so it's not really big. I've never been in the Netherlands so I don't expect anything from it. Actually I got cousins in the Netherlands, but I don't
know them really well, but anyway back to the questions.
My favourite place is a beach in the China, because it was the first time when I ride a jet-ski.
Biggest wish...I don't have one.
Happiness for me is a making lot of money.
What will I do in ten years? Well I hope I finish a high school, with good numbers.

Finland: Criss Cross - Here I Feel Well: Articles written by the Finnish students travelling to Vlaardingen project meeting in October 2009

Here I feel well

Hi , my name is Karilin. I’m 15 years old and I’m Estonian but I havelived all my life in Finland. My favourite place is in Estonia little place called Lelle. There is our cottage. I have been there every summer and Christmas holidays. I have lots of good memories there and sometimes I go there with my friends and we have spend a lots of good time together. I just love that place. My biggest wish is maybe to become a stewardess and I don’t have any worries fortunately. What is happiness for me? It makes me happy when I don't have any worries. It means that I'm enjoying my life and people's who is part of it makes me happy, so happiness means lot to me !
In next 10 years i’m gonna study to travel industry. And I still hope that I become an stewardess. :)